Catherine Eliza Murray
(1783-1854)
BIRTH
April 28, 1783
PLACE
NAME
Catherine Elizabeth Murray
DEATH
March 24, 1854
PLACE
FAMILY
HUSBAND
Richard Rush
(1780-1859)
CHILDREN
Richard Henry Rush
(1825-1893)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Catherine Eliza Murray Rush (1783–1854) was the wife of diplomat and statesman Richard Rush. They married in 1809, and their children included lawyer Benjamin Rush and cavalry officer Richard Henry Rush. The family’s papers preserve letters associated with Catherine and the couple’s children, alongside Richard’s diplomatic work in Britain and France. Sources disagree on whether the couple had ten or eleven children. Her independent activities remain less fully documented.
EARLY LIFE
Catherine Elizabeth Rush was born on Apr 28, 1783. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Catherine Elizabeth Rush is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Catherine Elizabeth Rush died on Mar 24, 1854. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Catherine Elizabeth Rush died on Mar 24, 1854. Catherine Eliza Murray Rush was the wife of diplomat and statesman Richard Rush. They married in 1809, and their children included lawyer Benjamin Rush and cavalry officer Richard Henry Rush. The family’s papers preserve letters associated with Catherine and the couple’s children, alongside Richard’s diplomatic work in Britain and France. Sources disagree on whether the couple had ten or eleven children. Her independent activities remain less fully documented. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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